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A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first century dilemmas can most successfully be resolved. Hence, argue the editors of this new four-volume collection from Routledge, while globalization is generally viewed as eroding the influence of states, cities have come to the fore as the new spatial frame of the future. The old modern international organization of states as a worldwide mosaic of borders is being challenged by transnational spaces of flows organized through city nodes in global networks.

As serious work on and around the subject flourishes as never before, Global Cities answers the need for an authoritative reference work to map and make sense of a vast body of literature and a continuing explosion in research output. Edited by a team of leading scholars, the collection brings together in four volumes the very best foundational and cutting-edge contributions.

The set is fully indexed and each component volume has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the gathered material in its historical and intellectual context. Global Cities is an essential resource and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research tool.

27. S. Hymer, ‘The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development’, in Jagdish N. Bhagwati (eds.), Economics and World Order from the 1970s to the 1990s (Collier-Macmillan, 1972), pp. 113–40.

33. N. J. Thrift, ‘On the Social and Cultural Determinants of International Financial Centres: The Case of the City of London’, in S. Corbridge, R. L. Martin, and N. J. Thrift (eds.), Money, Power and Space (Blackwell, 1994), pp. 327–55.

49. R. L. Michelson and J. O. Wheeler, ‘The Flow of Information in a Global Economy: The Role of the American Urban System in 1990’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1994, 84, 1, 87–107.

50. D. J. Keeling, ‘Transport and the World City Paradigm’, in P. L. Knox and P. J. Taylor (eds.), World Cities in a World-System (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 115–31.

82. E. Swyngedouw, ‘Metabolic Urbanization: The Making of Cyborg Cities’, in N. Heynen, M. Kaika, and E. Swyngedouw (eds.), In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (Routledge, 2006), pp. 21–40.